The workers have
no homeland and one cannot take away from them what they don't possess.
Any form of defence of the nation, whatever the pretext, is in reality an attack
on the whole worldwide working class. Under the reign of the bourgeoisie, all
wars are imperialist wars, with two or more opposing fractions or groups
whose interests are world capital. The proletariat wages and demands only one
war: social war against the whole bourgeoisie. Independent of the immediate
intentions of the protagonists, the essential function of wars is to assert
Capital and to objectively and subjectively smash the subversive class at the
heart of this society. Therefore, far from being "simple" wars between national
states, between the forces of "national liberation" and "imperialist" forces
or "inter-imperialist wars", they are, in their essence, wars of capital
against communism.

In the face of all the inter-bourgeois antagonisms
between "progressive" and "reactionary", "fascist" and "anti-fascist", "left
wing" and "right wing" fractions (the logical continuation of which is imperialist
war) the proletariat has only one possible response: intransigent struggle
for its own class interests, against all sacrifices, against every truce and
national solidarity, that is revolutionary defeatism, turning its weapons
against its "own" exploiters and immediate oppressors. The proletariat's aim
is to transform capitalist war into revolutionary war against the worldwide
bourgeoisie, by way of the international centralisation of this community
of struggle against Capital.